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Why does nulling the offset not remove the drift?

  • A.Drift is caused by the supply rather than the devices
  • B.Drift appears only above the rated temperature
  • C.The trim cancels at one temperature only
  • D.The trim adds a drift of its own that dominates

Answer: C

A trimming adjustment cancels the mismatch at the temperature it was set at, and as the devices heat their mismatch changes, so the cancellation decays. The trim's own drift is a smaller secondary effect, drift is a device property rather than a supply one, and it acts across the whole range. A correction applied at one operating point holds only near that point, which is a general limitation of trimming and the reason low-drift devices command a premium. A single measurement chosen to respond to the one asymmetry beats several that respond to shared behaviour.

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